ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Oil pollution from maritime transport (in this case from tankers) still remains a topic of top priority on the agenda of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) even if it displays a significant reduction during the last years. In this context, this paper investigates and builds upon the records of the publicly available CTX Casualty Database which follows a somehow different taxonomy for causes, accidents, and results of (tanker) accidents to mitigate acknowledged weaknesses and caveats of other known commercial databases. In effect, a thorough statistical analysis is presented covering descriptive statistics, geographic distributions, frequencies, correlations and statistical significance tests of crucial parameters for the occurrence and development of accidents. Furthermore, the paper addresses the occurrence of tanker oil spills and it presents a reliable model for the probabilistic representation of the quantity of oil spills from tankers. The paper concludes with interesting insights of the aforementioned tasks.
